{"id":224180,"date":"2016-06-21T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224180"},"modified":"2016-06-21T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T10:42:19","slug":"victor-wanyama-tottenham-hotspur-agree-fee-for-southampton-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224180","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wanyama: Tottenham Hotspur agree fee for Southampton player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a fee of \u00a311m for Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama, BBC Radio Solent understands.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought the 24-year-old Kenyan, who joined Saints in 2013 for \u00a312.5mfrom Celtic, is poised to undergo a medical with the White Hart Lane club.<\/p>\n<p>The move would reunite Wanyama with his former Saints boss Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>Wanyama asked to leave last summer after interest from Spurs but stayed at St Mary&#8217;s and helped Southampton to a sixth-placed finish.<\/p>\n<p>The imposing central midfielder made 85 league appearances for Saints, scoring four times.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal goes through he will become Tottenham&#8217;s first summer signing as they prepare for their return to the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Wanyama signed for Celtic from Belgian club Germinal Beerschot for an undisclosed fee in July 2011 having moved to Europe from Kenya to join Helsingborg of Sweden in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a fee of \u00a311m for Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama, BBC Radio Solent understands. It is thought the 24-year-old Kenyan, who joined Saints in 2013 for \u00a312.5mfrom Celtic, is poised to undergo a medical with the White Hart Lane club. The move would reunite Wanyama with his former Saints boss Mauricio Pochettino. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":224181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}